Keith Thurman had some scary moments in his return to the ring for the first time since 2017. Jaime Munguia won a fantastic brawl to maintain himself as one of the best at junior middleweight. And Adam Kownacki scored a thunderous second-round knockout.

But let’s go a little deeper, and let’s watch (or rewatch) some of the tape. Here’s everything you might have missed in boxing this weekend.

Notable weekend fights:

-At a few different points in the seventh round, it looked like Keith Thurman (29-0, 22 KOs) was on the verge of getting knocked down or stopped entirely by 16/1 underdog Josesito Lopez (36-8). Lopez landed right hand after right hand to Thurman’s chin, and it looked like Thurman, after 22 months away from the ring, had no way to stop it. Eventually, though, the round ended, and Thurman found his footing en route to a majority decision victory to retain his welterweight title. Though I had the fight 119-108 for Thurman, one judge had it a 113-113 draw and the other two had it for Thurman 115-111 and 117-109. Among all the press scores I've seen, mine is certainly one of the widest.

For most of the fight, Thurman looked good, using an effective jab and good bodywork against Lopez. Thurman knocked him down with a beautiful counter left hook in the second, and Thurman landed 45 percent of his power punches (compared to Lopez’s 28 percent), according to Compubox. But we won’t soon forget Thurman’s big-time troubles in the seventh.

“He had me buzzed and shaken up in the seventh round, but I tried to stay on the outside and away,” Thurman said afterward. “I was a little off in my prediction of how long his arms were. He lunged in and was really willing to commit to the knockout.”

-Though Takeshi Inoue (13-1-1) was a massive +1200 underdog, the mostly unknown fighter from Japan gave Jaime Munguia (32-0, 26 KOs) a good test. Munguia, though, ultimately was strong enough to win a wide unanimous decision victory and retain his junior middleweight title. It just verified the theory once again that Munguia, who was virtually unknown eight months ago, is one of the best 154-pounders in the world. Munguia said he wants to stay as a junior middleweight for now—Australian Danny Hogan is his next mandatory opponent—but he also said he wouldn’t mind facing 160-pound titlist Demetrius Andrade. “Of course,” he said. “I will accept the challenge.”

-When Gerald Washington (19-3-1) fought Deontay Wilder in 2017, he outboxed the heavyweight titlist for most of the fight before Wilder knocked him out in the fifth round. On Saturday, it didn’t take Adam Kownacki (19-0, 15 KOs) nearly that long to stop Washington.

Adam Kownacki, right, hurt Gerald Washington badly in the second round, knocking him down and forcing a referee stoppage. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

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Kownacki came out of his corner to begin the fight with non-stop punches, and eventually, he caught Washington with some awfully hard shots in the second to put him down on the canvas and eventually force the referee to stop the fight.

After the fight, Kownacki said he wants a title belt, and the Fox cameras immediately panned to Wilder sitting in the crowd. Wilder likely will face Tyson Fury in a rematch next, but if he wins that bout, a fight between Kownacki and him would be awfully interesting.